Cardiff

From Middle Welsh Caerdyf, equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort”) + Taf (“(River) Taff”) = fortified city on the River Taff. Compare Welsh Caerdydd.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdɪf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹdɪf/

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Cardiff

1. A city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales.
   • 2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18.

2. (metonymic) The Welsh government.
3. A suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
4. A community in the township of Highlands East, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
5. A hamlet in Sturgeon County, in central Alberta, Canada.
6. A small rural settlement in the region of Taranaki, New Zealand.
7. A place in the United States:
   1. A tiny town in Jefferson County, Alabama.
   2. Synonym of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
   3. A ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
   5. An unincorporated community in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
   6. A small hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.
   7. A ghost town in Roane County, Tennessee.

• Cardiff Bay
• Cardiff-by-the-Sea
• Cardiffian

• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Cardiff

1. Cardiff (a city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales)

• Cardife
• Cardívio (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from English Cardiff.

Cardiff ?

1. Cardiff (a city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales)

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